Infectious Microbes & Diseases

Open accessIn DOAJFee waivers availableMedicine

Infectious Microbes & Diseases is published by Wolters Kluwer as an open access journal (ISSN 2096-7241). The list article processing charge is $1,800. Typical time to publication is 11 wks. Its OpenAlex h-index is 18. Primary field: Medicine. It is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Fee waivers are stated as available. Figures on this page are sourced from OpenAlex and DOAJ and should be confirmed on the journal’s own site before submission.

Cost to publish

$1,800

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Checked · Journal fee page

Time to publication

11 wks

Broadly typical for the field.

h-index

18

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

1.5

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in Infectious Microbes & Diseases is listed at $1,800. The journal reports that fee waivers are available — worth pursuing if you are funding this yourself or working from a lower-income country.

The journal's own fee page →

Peer review and licensing

Review modelAnonymous peer review (policy)
LicenceCC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-NC-ND
Author keeps copyrightNo
Plagiarism screeningYes
Editorial boardPublished →
LanguagesEN

Verification checks

7 of 8 confirmed

These are facts we could verify in public records, not a verdict. A journal missing a check is not necessarily disreputable — many long-established subscription journals sit outside the open-access registries entirely. Use them as questions to ask, and confirm anything that matters directly with the journal before you submit.

  • Listed in the Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ applies a documented set of inclusion criteria.Confirmed
  • Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.Confirmed
  • Peer review model publicly declaredAnonymous peer reviewConfirmed
  • Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.Confirmed
  • Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.Confirmed
  • Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.Not confirmed
  • Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.Confirmed
  • Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.Confirmed

Scope

The subjects Infectious Microbes & Diseases publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Gut microbiota and healthCOVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesAntibiotic Resistance in BacteriaSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchLiver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentClostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens researchHIV/AIDS Research and InterventionsLiver Disease and TransplantationBacterial Infections and VaccinesStreptococcal Infections and Treatments

Publication record

Indexed articles219
Total citations1,196
i10-index36
Most recent indexed article2026
Open access since2019
All ISSNs2096-7241, 2641-5917

Counts reflect what OpenAlex has indexed and will differ from the publisher's own figures. We do not show a founding year: OpenAlex's first-publication dates are distorted by mis-dated records — it puts PLoS ONE in 1806 — and we would rather omit a number than print one we cannot stand behind.